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Radiator in kitchen

128 replies

swingersnotroundabouts · 15/12/2022 18:28

I had an incident yesterday and needed my neighbour's help. He noticed I had a radiator in the kitchen and said it was unusual. I said every house I have lived in has had a radiator in the kitchen. He's saying no one he knows has a radiator in their kitchen.
So AIBU to ask if you have a radiator in your kitchen?

OP posts:
Whatsthestorytomorrow · 15/12/2022 18:40

Yes.
There have been rads in the kitchens of the last 3 houses we’ve bought, and the one before that we rented.
DM & siblings all have rads in their kitchens, DF has in his… I can’t think of a single person I know that doesn’t have one tbh.

I’ve just been looking on RM for a house and noticed one property has a plug in oil filled radiator in the kitchen. That has actually put me off looking at it because I know it will be cold and I don’t want to go to the expense and upheaval of adding one to the central heating system.

Balloonsandroses · 15/12/2022 18:41

No radiator but we have an Aga that keeps the kitchen toasty warm when it’s on

Bunchymcbunchface · 15/12/2022 18:41

I have a radiator and a woodburner

GenerallyGreenerGrass · 15/12/2022 18:41

Every house I have lived in has had a radiator in the kitchen, all my family and friend’s houses have also.

IneedanewTV · 15/12/2022 18:43

I don’t. But I wish I did as it’s freezing. Another job for next summer I think.

GrouchyKiwi · 15/12/2022 18:44

Our dining-kitchen does, and our previous house had one in both parts of the d-k.

I want to move our current one and change it to one of those tall ones that goes up the wall.

5foot5 · 15/12/2022 18:46

We used to but when we had our kitchen revamped a few years ago we had the radiator taken out and instead we have this sort of fan heater thing in the kickspace. Not necessarily convinced it is an improvement.

JimDixon · 15/12/2022 18:47

I live in a flat in a converted Victorian house. There's a large kitchen which didn't have a radiator when I moved in. I had one put in because breakfast was unbearable in the winter otherwise!

TeenDivided · 15/12/2022 18:47

Yes, a small one which is normally off. House built 1996.

spookymarmite · 15/12/2022 18:48

I do, it was there when we bought the house.

AwfulSomething · 15/12/2022 18:49

I don’t, and no need for one. Can’t remember about previous homes, not really one to loiter in a kitchen

ApolloandDaphne · 15/12/2022 18:50

I have two in the kitchen in this house. All my previous houses have had a radiator in the kitchen. I don't know anyone who doesn't.

closingscore · 15/12/2022 18:51

Yes I have...as has my dd in hers. Why wouldn't you? I suppose some v modern kitchens would have underfloor heating but mine is 15 yrs old.

AlexandraJJ · 15/12/2022 18:53

I have too and always have

Iwantmyoldnameback · 15/12/2022 18:59

Surely kitchen size comes into it? I have a rad but the other end to the cooker.

Anjo2011 · 15/12/2022 19:02

Double radiator in mine. Would be freezing without it.

JennyForeigner · 15/12/2022 19:04

We have a tiny radiator in a sort of boot room. Our kitchen is absolutely freezing. We've just agreed to lose a unit and get a decent one in there.

TheWernethWife · 15/12/2022 19:05

We have one in the kitchen, our kitties have their cushion in front of it.

SusanPerbCallMeSue · 15/12/2022 19:18

No. And it's bloody freezing.

IneedanewTV · 15/12/2022 19:29

ApolloandDaphne · 15/12/2022 18:50

I have two in the kitchen in this house. All my previous houses have had a radiator in the kitchen. I don't know anyone who doesn't.

Lots on this thread don’t.

user53852098 · 15/12/2022 19:33

We have but it's quite small, up one end of a long galley kitchen so when it is very cold I use an oil filled radiator at the other end if I am in there for long

comeundone · 15/12/2022 19:34

We replaced one with a plinth heater. Only needed quite occasionally but works well

Abcdefu · 15/12/2022 19:35

I don't know anyone that doesn't have a radiator in their kitchen?

fishonabicycle · 15/12/2022 19:36

Everywhere I've lived has had a radiator in the kitchen.

BeaLola · 15/12/2022 19:38

XenoBitch · 15/12/2022 18:40

Yes, radiator in kitchen here too.

My parent's house have a radiator in their loo. It is literally just the loo in there, not even a sink. I really don't see the point in that!

Our downstairs loo has a small radiator in it - the amount of tine DS spends in there on his phone (avoiding homework) he needs it (radiator was here when we bought house - built late 1990s I think).

We also have a radiator in kitchen - again here when we moved in - DH who does most of main cooking refuses to have it on .